Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist for Deaf Children, Camden, Islington and Haringey

We currently have a fantastic and rare opportunity for therapists who wants to develop their specialist skills and knowledge in working with deaf children.

Band 6 0.4 wte: permanent contract

This post will be based in Blanche Nevile School for Deaf Children in

Haringey

• Blanche Nevile School for Deaf Children has a Sign Bilingual philosophy for children aged 3-18 years. The school has both primary and secondary departments which are co-located with 2 mainstream schools in Haringey.
  
  

You will be part of the wider network of the SLT Service for children who are Deaf across Camden, Islington and Haringey.

We are an innovative and supportive team of therapists who provide a range of interventions for deaf children and their families. We work closely with school staff and a range of professionals such as specialist Teachers of the Deaf, Deaf instructors, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists.

Interest, enthusiasm, confidence and flexibility will be essential, and in return we can offer support and supervision, service management, and professional development.

( This part time post can be linked with another current vacancy to make a full time post .

Band 6 0.6 wte: 1 year fixed term contract based in Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children in Camden and/or Laycock Provision for Deaf Students in Islington

The post holder will be based within Haringey Speech and Language Therapy service. This part-time post is for a permanent 0.4 wte (15 hours per week) Band 6 within the Haringey Speech and Language Therapy team

The post holder will work 15 hours per week based in primary (3-11 years) and/or secondary (11-18 years) departments of Blanche Nevile Special School for Deaf Children. The school provides a sign bilingual, child-centred education. The school is co-located with 2 mainstream schools and work in close partnership at all levels. The Speech and Language Therapy is delivered both individually and within the class environment and works closely with the MDT

• Key responsibilities are to carry a personal clinical caseload maintaining a high level of professional competence as well as advising/training carers and school staff on clinical issues. These may be related to effective communication strategies/good communication environments. In addition the post holder will demonstrate a good level of clinical expertise and participate in continuing professional development to maintain and further develop specialist knowledge and clinical practice.
  
  

The post holder will have an understanding and awareness of deaf culture and will be able to communicate with deaf children and families using a range of communication modes including BSL, to maximise communication with deaf children and their families.

Please See Job Description For Further Information.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Wendy Martin Job title: Clinical Coordinator SLT (Deafness) Email address: wendy.martin4@nhs.net Telephone number: 07798854356

For an informal chat to discuss the post please contact wendy.martin4@nhs.net ( Team Lead)